Fly High (2008)

Fly High

2008

Documentary Adventure

Synopsis

Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountain guides take an unprecedented risk in Patagonia. Trained by the great climbers Ralf Weber, Ueli Steck, Denis Burdet and David Fasel, the young people are collecting rock samples from the granite walls of the Paine Towers, which are up to 1000 meters high, on behalf of science. The challenges are enormous: Climbing a big wall at the highest level of difficulty, cloudy weather, relentless wind that tears at material and nerves - and an urgency that also pushes the group to their emotional limits. "Flying High" not only documents an extraordinary undertaking, but also shows up close what happens when something happens that can happen after every meter of altitude climbed: a fall.

Credits

Director

Roman Droux

Cast

Christian Joke Schmidheiny as Self

Lucile Seydoux as Self

Lukas Baumgartner as Self

Nina Caprez as Self

Ralf Weber as Self

Thomas Bossert as Self

Ueli Steck as Self

Crew